The note is based on the "Social Protection of Africa's Orphans and vulnerable children" study, which looks at HIV/AIDS, and the violent conflicts that are giving rise to a massive generation of orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa. The region currently has about 12 million orphans, most under the age...

Malaria is a treatable and preventable disease yet it remains a major challenge to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. It is not only a serious health problem, but an issue that cripples development. Every year, malaria infects more than 500 million people around the world and...

This brief discusses the progress made in the Ethiopia Health Sector Development Program. The program's aims were to develop a health system that provides comprehensive and integrated primary care services, primarily based at community health level facilities. It focuses on communicable...

The Health Sector Recovery Program ( HSRP ) - 1996-2003 -- was the first Bank-assisted project in Mozambique to move towards a sector-wide approach. Its objective was to support the Mozambican National Health Strategy, that is, the improvement of the health status of the population, in general,...

Most private not-for-profit (PNFP) health providers in Uganda are faith-based. They account for a sizeable proportion of the health services delivered in the country and have as their prime concern the provision of services to the poor. These providers are coordinated through umbrella...

The objectives of the Health and Nutrition Project were to raise the quality, coverage, and effectiveness of family planning, nutrition, and basic health services through the provision of support to critical and strategic elements of the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) sector. This was...

The note reflects on the issue of effective health sector investments with sustainable results, which based on the Bank's experience, constraints to such efforts is neither lack of money, nor absence of technology, but rather the weak national capacity to fully benefit from those investments....